problems during debian installation
i study in an engg. college student and recently our department (computer science and engineering) decided to switch from WINDOWS to LINUX.. A few of us formed linux awareness group and since i was already a linux user i volunteered to help... we chose DEBIAN as our OS.. we downloaded the debian binary dvds from the debian.org website.. made copies and distributed it amongst our friends who needed it..
we encountered a few problems while installation:
1. installation was successful on a system but on re-boot after installation it showed gdm failed. X-server errror. Screen not found. cant access gnome desktop.
2. installation was successful on a system. but on re-start it showed "GRUB LOADER ERROR". unable to access both windows and debian on it
3. this happened to a friend of mine.. he installed debian.. but on boot-up his screen showed the following box
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this box was moving to and fro on the screen...(i think it's due to some resolution mismatch)
also files from his system32 got corrupt!!!! how come??? poor guy couldn't accesss windows or linux
he got fed up and reinstalled xp!!!
4. two of my friends have wipro laptops that are supposed to be linux compatible.. the installer couldn't identify the hard disk itself... they told me it was SATA so i tried all the SATA options in VGUI mode..(normal mode was not supported dont know Y!! ) but was of no use!!! cant create partitions if hard disk is not detected...
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